the death toll from last week's 6.9-magnitude earthquake in northwest China has risen to 2,039, state media said late Monday. Another 195 people were still missing, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing rescue headquarters. It added that 12,135 people were injured, of whom 1,434 were in serious condition. Since the quake struck the country's Tibetan region, rescuers have been working round the clock to find survivors and pull them from the rubble. The earthquake toppled about 15,000 homes in and around the impoverished county of Yushu, and caused more than 100,000 people to flee the area. Qinghai province is home to about 5 million people and is considered a gateway to Himalayan Tibet. About half its people are Han Chinese, but the area is home to more than 40 ethnic groups, including Tibetans, Hui and Mongols.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/19/china-quake-toll-rises-to-nearly-2000/

There was a time when if a natural disaster occurred in a country, the people would look up and ask, what did we do to deserve this?

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday, Mar.16, urging the Chinese Communist Party to end its decade-long campaign against Falun Gong and expressing solidarity with victims of persecution in China.

House Resolution 605 recognizes, “the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 11th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party campaign to suppress the Falun Gong spiritual movement and calling for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners.” “The Falun Gong spiritual discipline is based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance,” said Ros-Lehtinen. “Yet these innocents are brutally targeted by the Chinese regime. The stark reality which this resolution addresses gives new meaning to the phrase 'Butchers of Beijing.’” All the Governments of the World are aware of these atrocities and many many more but choose to keep them from us and continue to do Business as Usual because of corporate greed. What are your ideas?